ContributorsIgor Siwanowicz
Research Scientist
HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus
Igor Siwanowicz is a research scientist at HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus.
He earned his PhD at the Max Planck Institute in Germany in structural biochemistry, but his love for animals and nature, as well as a desire to see the bigger picture, drove him to refocus his scientific work on neurobiology. This transition was facilitated by his expertise in invertebrate morphology, which he developed through macrophotography. A confocal microscope became his key tool of trade, allowing for even more intimate insight into natural forms than is possible through a macro lens.
For the past 12 years, he has been studying the anatomy and biomechanics of movement in invertebrates at Janelia. His images have placed a total of 25 times in Nikon’s Small World and Olympus’s BioScapes competitions. In 2020, he received the Royal Photographic Society’s Scientific Imaging Award. Siwanowicz’s science-informed art aims to awaken viewers to the beauty of natural forms and multiple facets of design present in nature at every scale.
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